Originally Posted by
Kerberoz
Eh, none of that matters unless you're forcing artificial handicaps on yourself. I haven't played the game in a long-ass time (or ever taken RPG 'gameplay' seriously), but from what I remember, using words like "broken" or "terrible" for any character is a massive exaggeration. They can all equip the handful of materia that matter and the only real differences were limit breaks. Same with VIII, anyone who wasn't Squall was only there to cast Aura. Think I used Cloud, Tifa/Yuffie, and Red, but even that was only because thought they were "coolest" and didn't want to bother equipping all the characters.